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Got some of that Berocca, the soluble effervescent multivitamin tablet. I know it’s nonsense – famously it turns your pee a funny colour, which is a satisfying side-effect but really just shows you’re pissing away the extraneous vitamins. It’s a shame that they’re all a horrible synthetic orange flavour. Using ice-cold water makes it more palatable, but also stops the tablet dissolving so readily. I’d prefer an unflavoured version, it if only it were available – it might be unspeakably bitterly disgusting, but wouldn’t that only enhance the placebo effect? (See Rory Sutherland on Red Bull.)
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Got a smart electricity meter, which is huge for me. No in-home display, because the meter is too many floors away – I thought that something called Alt HAN meant that wasn’t a problem these days, but apparently not. But I can use the app to look at various graphs, after waiting about half a day for the previous day’s figures to appear. Compared to the water meter app, the electricity one is considerably less shite, and therefore even more compelling.
Transfixed by how little electricity I’ve used since the meter was installed. I did paint a rusty bit of the fridge, improving the effectiveness of the door seal – did that made that much difference? No, I think they’d been way over-estimating my usage.
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🎦 Saw Inception at the IMAX instead of the big football match.
The Invite, which I can’t believe wasn’t renamed The Invitation for UK audiences. Just slightly too pleased with itself about how funny it is, and there’s a folding bicycle in it, which made me wonder if there’s anything to the theory that there’s a correlation between the two (see Twenty Twelve and W1A). Of course not.